Day 7: British Museum

The church that the tiered wedding cake is based on. 

Dr. Johnson's house, the first writer of the english dictionary.

Church from the DeVinci Code.

The Rosetta Stone

Pillar from the Parthenon 

Dinner time near our hotel

Abbey Road reenactment 

We walk out into the morning air ready to take on the day on our Fleet Street tour. Our tour guide was passionate freelance journalist who was extremely excited about telling others about the history of newspapers in London. After several hours of walking, and viewing the buildings where the newspaper industry in London first started, we went to the British museum. On the way there we passed a justice building where Tony Blair was taking part in the Rupert Murdoch case. Press was everywhere waiting for him to exit, and it was a neat part of London to see. Also on our tour we learned about printing presses through the years and the significance of some sayings we say in English. Those sayings include, “Getting the short end of the stick,” “Minding your P’s and Q’s,” and why we call letters uppercase and lowercase, depending on where the letters were positioned in the case. All of those sayings relate to early versions of the printing press. At the British museum we saw the Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian stone that had hieroglyphics, simple Egyptian writing, and Greek writing on it. After the British got a hold of the stone, they studied it for a long time trying to decipher what the stone said. There were also pieces of the Parthenon in Greece taken and put into the museums and unending amounts of Egyptian artifacts including mummies and pharaohs tombs. After the museum we went to Abbey Road to reenact the Beatles album cover. It was very cool and we got some great photos.